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It remains the case that a compass points both north and south by nature; which is a matter of convention.
by Cushman 14y ago
It remains the case that a compass points both north and south by nature; which is a matter of convention.
- lifeformed 14y agoIt's just an analogy, I'm sure everyone understands what he meant.
- mattdeboard 14y agoJust out of curiosity, how do you manage to converse with other people in the real world?
- benologist 14y agoHis conversations end in "yer fired!".
- Cushman 14y agoIt varies, but usually I compress my diaphragm to force air from my lungs past a set of vibrating membranes which produce a base tone, then modulate that tone using the various muscles in my mouth to produce a set of distinct acoustic patterns which my conversational partner can decode. If that's working well I'll also modulate the frequency and volume of the tone itself to encode additional semantic information, but that's not strictly necessary for communication to take place.
- rhizome 14y agoEver been fired? ;)
- Cushman 14y agoYou offering me a job?